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Public officials celebrated at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new American Blues Theater on the Northwest Side, activists held a vigil for people who have died while detained at Cook County Jail, and construction workers began framing a “winterized base camp” for asylum-seekers in Chicago.

A Sun-Times analysis finds that thousands of scofflaws — many from the suburbs — have dodged city debts over the years, depriving City Hall of a massive sum of money as Mayor Brandon Johnson faces steep budget challenges.

Chicago lights its tree, firefighter Andrew “Drew” Price is laid to rest, and Berlin nightclub shuts down.

Two-time Tony Award-winning director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell tapped Jasmine Amy Rogers for the lead role in the world-premiere musical at Chicago’s CIBC Theatre.

Over protests, Mayor Brandon Johnson is moving ahead with plans to shelter migrants on polluted Brighton Park site

The Starbucks, 5807 S. Western Ave., has added 35 jobs and cost $3 million to open.

Passengers ask why a snow plow was on an active track. A transportation expert wonders how the CTA didn’t know stopping distances. Thirty-eight people were injured.

The annual festival was lit by more than a million bulbs as hundreds of marching band members, dozens of floats and, of course, Santa Claus himself paraded by on Michigan Avenue.

“I’ve been coming here since I was a shorty,” the Grammy Award-winning rapper remarked before leading the excited crowd in a countdown to illuminate the majestic four-story spruce at the center of it all.